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The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price. Norman Granz

I also like Western classical music and jazz. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way. Ophelia Lovibond

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Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play. Oscar Peterson

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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around. Pat Metheny

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I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is. Pat Metheny

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On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations. Patti Page

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Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught. Paul Desmond

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It's funny to find there are still people around who think if a musician has schooling, it automatically makes him a lesser jazz player. But you don't learn jazz in school. Paul Horn

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You have to go out and learn jazz by playing. Paul Horn

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We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad. Paul Horn

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains. Paul Whiteman

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Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. Paul Whiteman

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Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul. Paul Whiteman

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I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music. Paula Cole

I love so many different types of music - hard rock, bebop, jazz fusion, R&B. And I've loved meeting and painting so many amazing artists like Lionel Richie, Ronnie Wood, Sia, Steven Tyler, Swizz Beatz, Taylor Swift, James Moody, The Fifth Dimension, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Michael Jackson. It makes me smile thinking about each one of them. Peter Max

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I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong. Philip Levine

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I love all types of music - jazz, great pop music, world music and folk music - but the music I listen to most is piano music from the 18th, 19th and 20th century. Russian music in particular. Philip Pullman

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The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer. Phoebe Snow

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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me. Rachel Bloom

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